What was the best thing about your weekend?

Hannah, Jesse, and Libby's visit. They were sweet enought to come and stay with us Saturday night after a week with her sister in law in the DC area. Kelly, Sam, Jenny, Jenny's adorable son, and Gary came over too. Lots of eating, laughing and SingStar-ing. Gary made steaks. Hannah kicked all of our butts on SingStar. Jenny and Libby not only sang, but they added some stellar dance moves along with their performances. I'll post pictures later. I'm too lazy and tired right now. Sadly, I don't have too many. I think that's the sign of a really great time, being so busy you forget to take a bunch of pictures.

Thanks to Hannah, I need to find a Whole Foods soon. I have one Organic Caramel Truffle left and that is not a good thing. I also need Libby's recipe for Meringues. I ate the last one yesterday afternoon.

Yup, it was a great weekend.

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So, I realized that when I have nothing planned and the kids are gone, I really really miss them. The house just isn't the same. Honestly, I really like my kids, as much as they might drive me crazy sometimes.

Steve doesn't have any leave time right now so that leaves me at home while he is working. Thursday wasn't bad. I got to see Marlen for the first time in what seems like forever. I would've like to have stayed longer, but Thursdays are "TV Thursday" at my house. I make dinner for Rob, "the new girl", and Gary, then we talk and watch lots of tv. I got homein just enough time to run around like a chicken with my head cut off attempting to clean and cook dinner. I made a lovely chicken jerky on the grill (unintentionally, of course). We attempted to finish watching the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, but just weren't feeling it. We ended up watching the Colbert Report and calling it a night.

I quickly checked my Vox before bed to see if Kelly wanted to meet up for lunch and she was still ignoring me. That's when a light went off in my head and I realized that it's her "weekend" and she doesn't have internet at home right now! I gave her a call and we made lunch plans. It had been almost a year since the last time we met up! Seriously, I'm not letting that much time go by this time and it's not just because she gave me some Cadbury Flake bars and lent me some awesome books. Kelly is just one of those people that I feel like I've known forever. We talked and talked and then talked some more. We were going to watch a movie from her impressive collection (she has awesome taste in movies), but we were enjoying talking too much. Side note, Sam is ridiculously cute. I completely understand why Kelly is wrapped around his paw.

I could've hung out and talked forever but Steve made plans with Rob and "the new girl" to go to dinner and see Get Smart. Gary and the non-blogging brother, Dan went too. So I had to head home. We enjoyed an awesome dinner that included lots of high fiving over things like meatloaf and Good Charlotte. Ok, Gary and I were the only ones that high fived over Good Charlotte, but we like them and we make no apologies for it.

Get Smart was just good and funny. I didn't go in expecting anything but to be entertained and I was. It may have helped that I have never watched an episode of the old Get Smart, so I had no expectations whatsoever.

Today, Steve and I slept in.  We have a cookout to go to later. It'll be weird to go without the kids, but I'm sure we'll have a good time anyway!

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So, yeah, here are the pictures I promised the other day. They are all on Steve's computer, so I had to wait til he was home and not using it. Since Steve gave a pretty good run down of our trip, I'm just going to post some of my favorite pictures that he didn't use.

First up, the BK by our hotel had this breakfast special I'd never seen up here in the North.

Only in the south

They don't have monster sized cans of Boiled Peanuts up here either.

Mmmm Boiled Peanuts

We had to ride on 2 ferries on our trip up the North Carolina coast. The first one was a little long, 2 1/2 hours, but we managed to entertain ourselves.

Tori and Josiah on the ferry

Steve up close

Steve feeding the gull

Almost to the island

We stayed overnight on Ocracoke Island. It is this little bitty island that you can only get to by ferry. We stayed at a quaint old motel, Blackbeard's Lodge. Sadly, this is the only picture I have of the place since Steve took all the other ones for his blog.

Blackbeard's lobby

Pesto scallops with bacon

Soph and the feral cat

Jane and the feral duck

Kids and the lighthouse

Ferry Ride from Ocracoke Island to Cape Hatteras, 3/08

Josiah and the dead osprey

About to build us some bears

Josiah and the dinosaur he didn't get

Victoria stuffing her bear

Meeting Jamie and DeWitte

So there you have it. Spring break is over and school is back in session. Back to the same old same old. I'm just glad I have times like these to look back on when the days seem long and start running into each other!

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I would update, but I've got kids with Build a Bears to register on their online site (seriously, every stuffed animal seems to come with a virtual world nowadays!).

I do want to tell you that we got to meet Jamie, DeWitte and Nathan. They were among the first neighbors I added here at Vox. They are just as cool as they are on their blogs. So be jealous. Pictures to come later after all virtual bears are taken care of.

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